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[KaFu]

HMW - Hide my Windows

Current Version: v1.6 (2012-Jan-02)

HMW is a free program to stash away the Windows on your desktop. With HMW you can set any program Window as hidden, while the program itself will run silently in the background. Additionally all the Hotkeys used can be customized to your needs.

[*] With HMW you can improve your “Visual Privacy”. No-one looking at your desktop will see instantly what programs you’re running anymore.
[*] You can hide away programs which have long processing runs, cluttering your desktop and impairing the overall usability.
[*] HMW is fully portable, the settings are stored in a "hmw.ini" file created in the scriptdir.

It works fine on my XP-32bit & Win7-64bit machine. If you find bugs please let me know.

The source and executable can be downloaded from my site: http://www.funk.eu

Kudos to Ascend4nt, Prog@ndy, UEZ, Yashied, Tuape & wraithdu for parts of the code.

Please let me know if you found some piece of code in the source for which I forgot to mention a credit.

Enjoy, let me know what you think of HMW and with Best Regards

Edited by KaFu, 02 January 2012 - 11:20 AM.

[KaFu]

2011-Nov-21, Changelog 1.2 > 1.3

• Fixed a bug related to fetching the underlying process of a window
• Removed Child Window tab (not everything what can be done also makes sense )...

Source and Executable are available at
http://www.funk.eu

Best Regards

[spudw2k]

Is the pass-protect function only enforced by the tool? What would happen if used other methods outside your tool to show a hidden window that has been pass-protect'd? Does your tool monitor those processes?
(Unable to test atm otherwise I'd find out for myself.) Just curious.

edit: the screenshot looks nice btw.

Edited by spudw2k, 23 November 2011 - 01:32 AM.

[KaFu]

No, currently it does not monitor changes invoked from outside and the password is only asked for when you want to recover the HMW gui from a hidden state. But it sounds like a nice feature to implement for me, maybe using a window event monitor ?

[KaFu]

2011-Dec-03, Changelog 1.3 > 1.4

• Fixed some bugs
• Add a lot of features (see screenshot first post)
• HMW now monitors changes on windows it changed itself, e.g. it now tries to force a window to stay hidden if some other program tries to unhide it

Source and Executable are available at
http://www.funk.eu

Enjoy , Best Regards

Edited by KaFu, 03 December 2011 - 10:21 AM.

[KaFu]

Upsa, found and corrected a startup error, please re-download v1.4 ...

[KaFu]

Had to fix another startup error, sorry for the inconvenience, please re-download v1.4.

[somdcomputerguy]

Always nice seeing a reference , thanks somdcomputerguy

(Alt + Tab hide icons)

You bet man. It's a neat little program.

[KaFu]

2011-Dec-31, Changelog 1.4 > 1.5

• Fixed tray icons to fetch
• Added AltTab selection radio button

Source and Executable are available at
http://www.funk.eu

Enjoy , Best Regards

[KaFu]

2012-Jan-02, Changelog 1.5 > 1.6

• Fixed a Win7 bug in tray icons to fetch
• Win7: Added "Desktop" to AltTab selection

Source and Executable are available at
http://www.funk.eu

Enjoy , Best Regards

Edited by KaFu, 02 January 2012 - 11:22 AM.

[adolfito121]

Love it. Thanks a lot